Definition of POLYHEDRON

Examples of polyhedron in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web This polyhedron is a classic prism made from professional-grade optical crystal glass. — Popular Science, "Prisms, crystal balls, and fractal filters for photographers," 23 Oct. 2019 The 20th-century mathematician Aleksandr Aleksandrov proved that for every two-dimensional polygon, there is one unique way of folding it to form a 3-D polyhedron. — Quanta Magazine, "Test Your Mathematical Sculpting Skills," 5 Jan. 2017 And the circle packing proof tells you that there’s a polyhedron that has all its edges tangent to a sphere. — Quanta Magazine, "In Search of God’s Perfect Proofs," 19 Mar. 2018 The printer cranks out up to 150 polyhedra each year – everything from models of protein crystallography to Mars' topography. — Stacey Smith Lang, WIRED, "Skeleton Key," 1 Nov. 2001

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